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Funding boost for Tees Valley Arts project

Published 12th Oct 2011

Tees Valley Arts is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a significant grant of £100,000 (over two years) from the J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust.

The grant is for the “Moving On” project for creative activities with young people in the care of the local authority across all five Tees Valley Boroughs – Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton.

Rowena Sommerville, Director of Tees Valley Arts commented “We are very pleased to have been awarded this money which will allow us to achieve good, positive and progressive work with very vulnerable young people in the Tees Valley”.

This project has been devised in partnership with officers in all five Borough Councils, and builds on previous TVA activity, particularly the pilot “Moving On” project in Darlington in 2010, which worked with 8 young people in care, supporting their confidence, maturity and move towards vocational choices.

History fans! No booking required for this lecture tomorrow by Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones, of Liverpool John Moores University, at Teesside University tomorrow.
'When the Rev. Samuel Barnett proposed that Oxbridge men move to reside in poor districts of Britain’s great cities, he believed that their working-class counterparts suffered not only from economic disadvantages but also from a ‘poverty of life’.
His solution was a place where working men could experience beauty, truth and culture, but also as a place where the ‘two nations’ could be reconnected. Toynbee Hall was one of those places, designed to be an alternative domestic space for both the Oxbridge graduate settler and for their working-class neighbour.'
Full details can be found here: http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/research/events_details.cfm?event_id=6866
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